I will be citing Steve Sampson on a variety of topics, here and elsewhere, over the next week or so, but here is one more tidbit from my conversation with him that I will put up here and now. We were talking about the 1998 World Cup, when Sampson was coach of the U.S. national […]

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I was talking to Steve Sampson the other day about several topics, and during the chat we got onto the subject of Landon Donovan, and what his soccer future should look like. Sampson, you probably recall, is the former U.S. national team soccer coach (1995-98), the former Costa Rican national soccer team coach (2002-04) — […]

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In case you are worried about my friend Luis Bueno, as I was, when he stopped updating his soccer blog, The Touchline … well, don’t be. He told me recently that he has other commitments — paying ones — that keep him from keeping up with The Touchline. Which I have to assume is not […]

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